Oh I just collect the things needed for the hobby. I don't actually do the hobby.

I put them all away except one per month. I rotate that each month (one of each board game / book / CD).

On the computer I have a folder with a shortcut to one game, movie, TV show, audiobook, album and ebook. I delete the shortcuts when I’m done and make new ones next month. The folder lives on my taskbar/dock.

I’ve never managed to develop one. I’ve gone many times down the “oh that looks interesting” only to quickly become bored path so I gave up on trying to adopt one. I focus on making my day less boring.

I wish I could get obsessed with satisfactory or something.

Create artificial restrictions.

One year I decided I would only read ‘classics’ (pre-1950), one year I only read sci-fi, one year I only read Shakespeare’s plays, in chronological order as written.

In all of those years I read more than I did normally, with the added bonus that it pushed me to read things I might not have otherwise picked up.

For video games, something I’ve enjoyed in the past is a gaming alphabet: for a year, you keep a list of all 26 letters A-Z. Every time you start a game, it should be something you: A.) haven’t played before, and B.) the title should start with a letter you haven’t used yet.

It encourages you to scroll through your backlog and pick something different because it’s a letter you need. Plus, over the year you’ll build a list of all the games you played (you can add short reviews too!) which can be a fun look back later on.

I find it hard to jump between things too frequently. It's all or nothing, more often. For video games I tried elite dangerous in VR and now that's all I ever want to play. I needed a break from VR so I read books for most of a day, which restarted my drive to read a lot.

I guess it's been, 'make it somehow something that I have to tone down, instead of pushing myself to do more.'

I have a small SSD on my laptop. Only 500GB, so I can't install all of the games. I move ROMs to my external when not playing them and move them to the internal to play. I also package games up from Steam/other sources and do the same. That limits how many games I have installed at any time and helps make some friction to getting stuck in choice paralysis.

That said, for other thing is multiplayer. I an playing Hytale with my partner and we were playing Minecraft before that for a while, so playing together becomes playing that game together and is therefore simple.

Overwhelming choices and paralysis by analysis do that. You say you want to play EVERY game. That's a huge amount of games. There are so many choices it's overwhelming. Maybe try to at least narrow down to a genre? What usually works for me is that I'll just pick something at random and start playing. After that I'm good.